AFFAIRS IN EGYPT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18612, 21 July 1922, Page 5

AFFAIRS IN EGYPT

ABBAS HILMY’S EXPULSION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CAIRO, July 18. The Government decreed the expulsion of the ex-Khedive (Abbas Hilmy).—A. and N.Z. Cable. GENEVA, July 18. Abbas Hilmy has arrived here. He declared that he had to leave Constantinople secretly owing to tho British authorities refusing him a passport. He declared that King Fuad is a usurper. “I never abdicated,” he said, “and X am ready to serve the Egyptian people. I hope soon to return ae head of an independent Egypt.”— A. and N.Z. Cable. [Fuad 1., Ahmed Pasha, G. 0.8., was bom on March 26, 1868, and became Sultan on October _9, 1917. The present Sovereign of Egypt is the eight ruler of the dynasty of Muhammed Ali. who was appointed Governor of Egypt in 1805, and who made himself in 1811 absolute master of tho country by force of arms. On December 18, 1914, a British Protectorate over Egypt was declared, and the next day a proclamation was issued deposing Abbas Hilmi,. lately Khedive of Egypt, and conferring the title pf Sultan of Egypt upon Hussein Kamil, eldest living pnnee of the family of Muhammed Ali. The British Protectorate has been recognised by France, Russia, Belgium, Serbia, Greece. Portugal, and the United States. Sultan Hussein Kamil died in 1917, and was succeeded by his brother. Fuad I was declared King when self-govern-ment was granted to Egypt recently.]